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The four-gate distance declaration sheet

Complete four methodological declarations before calculating or interpreting any cross-border distance score.

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Source: Author's methodological worksheet grounded in Shenkar (2001), Kostova et al. (2020), and Depperu et al. (2024). Blank fields are reader declarations; no single score or country index is supplied.

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Cultural distance changes with the base country

A distance score is not a free-standing fact. State the base country, construct, comparison unit, and mechanism before interpreting it.

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@misc{isoglu-2026-cultural-distance-changes-with-base-country-fig01,
  author = {Isoglu, Sinan},
  title = {{The four-gate distance declaration sheet}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Figure 1, isoglu.com},
  url = {https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-cultural-distance-changes-with-base-country-fig01/},
  note = {From the essay {Cultural distance changes with the base country}}
}

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